Tuesday, July 22 - Zero: Nancy Pelosi

I'm actually quite surprised it took me this long to add this moron to my list.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, or as she is called on the Big Dogs blog, "the worst speaker in the history of Congress," explained the cause of high oil prices: "We have two oilmen in the White House. The logical follow-up from that is $3-a-gallon gasoline. It is no accident. It is a cause and effect. A cause and effect."

Wow, now that explains why the price of cigars and Hustler magazines skyrocketed during the Clinton administration...

Announcing the Democrats' bold new "plan" on energy last week, Pelosi said breaking into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve "is one alternative." That's not an energy plan. It's using what we already have -- much like "conservation," which is also part of the Democrats' plan.

Conservation, efficiency and using oil we hold in reserve for emergencies does not get us more energy. It's as if we were running out of food and the Democrats were telling us: "Just eat a little less every day." Great! We'll die a little more slowly. That's not what we call a "plan." We need more energy, not a plan for a slower death.

But there's more! Pelosi announced that the Democrats also plan to push for "an historic investment in biofuels, efficiency, conservation and the rest."

That certainly would be historic: We would make history by throwing our money away on unproven energy boondoggles that have eaten up untold billions since the 1960s without producing a single net kilowatt of power while we all starve to death.

Democrats couldn't care less about high gas prices. The consistent policy of the Democratic Party, going back at least to Jimmy Carter, has been to jack up gas prices so we can all start pedaling around on bicycles.

Environmentalists are constantly clamoring for higher gas taxes as the cure-all to their insane global warming theory. Clinton proposed a 26-cent tax on gas. John Kerry said it should be 50 cents. Al Gore endorsed the proposal of Paul and Anne Ehrlich in "The Population Explosion" that gas taxes be raised gradually to match prices in Europe and Japan.

The result is consumers now pay about 46 cents per gallon in gasoline taxes. That's not including taxes paid directly to the government by the oil companies and passed onto consumers. As economist John Lott has pointed out, in the past 25 years oil companies have paid more than three times in taxes what they have made in profits.

You know, you never hear the politicians complaining about how much revnue the government brings in...

Obama's response to soaring gas prices is to have the oil companies collect even more money from us at the pump, proposing a "windfall profits tax" on oil companies. "Corporate taxes" sound like taxes on rich people, but all they do is force corporations to collect taxes on behalf of the government.

In response to skyrocketing gas prices, liberals say, practically in unison, "We can't drill our way out of this crisis."

What does that mean? This is like telling a starving man, "You can't eat your way out of being hungry!" "You can't water your way out of drought!" "You can't sleep your way out of tiredness!" "You can't drink yourself out of dehydration!"

Seriously, what does it mean? Finding more oil isn't going to increase the supply of oil?

Liberals are also alleging that the oil companies are sitting on millions of acres of oil but are refusing to drill -- presumably because oil company executives hate the American people and perversely don't want to make money. Manifestly, those acres are being explored for oil or have already come up dry.

If the Liberals really wanted oil companies to find more oil, they'd allow oil companies to drill offshore and to drill in ANWR, which we happen to know is bursting with oil.

But they don't. They don't want drilling. They don't want more oil. They want humans to ride bicycles and then to die.

We deserve it: We were mean to the polar bears.

Peace, Love, and GOD,
Tracy

Thursday, July 10th - Zero: Change

Make that just Zero Change.

That is what we are getting with Mr. Barak "Change we can believe in" Obama.

I saw on the news this morning that Obama now 'regrets' having his daughters appear in an interview with Access Hollywood. Now, I would think that the biggest regret there would be doing an interview with Access Hollywood in the first place. But I'm just one of those bitter Americans that think Tabloids are fodder for the lowest forms of human life - celebrities that are famous for.. oh forget it. I don't have the energy for more than one rant today....

Anyway, the regret factor. With John Kerry, we called it flip-flopping. Growing up, we called it crawfishing, indian-giving, or we would scream 'NO TAKEBACKS!!!'

Obama is pretty dang good at 'regrets'. In April of this year, he regretted calling us Americans that believe in God and our Constitutional rights bitter. Back in February of 2007, he announced that he regretted saying that American Soldiers that had died in the war lived wasted lives. And let's not forget that he regrets buying that property back in Nov 06 from his good buddy (and current jailbird) Tony Rezko.

It almost sounds like Barack Obama is a politician. Hmmmm. So, what exactly is this Change he's gonna bring? His biggest speeches have been ripped right out of the mouth of other politicians. Most of his campaign staff comes from other politicians. His platform is a total mishmash of (yes) other politicians. Did anyone really doubt that he was going to get sucked into the Washington DC machine?

Heck, just this week he voted FOR the new NSA wiretapping bill. You know, the very one that he said he HATED so much that he vowed to filibuster it???? This, just after his economy speech in St. Louis where he pretty much used the 'a chicken in every pot' speech from Herbert Hoover.

The ambitious Obama economic agenda laid out in St. Louis includes:

More tax money for education, government subsidies for "green energy" companies, more tax money for "rebuilding our schools, roads, bridges and other critical infrastructure that needs repair," $50 billion immediately for a new "stimulus package" to send "energy rebate checks" to less-affluent households, plus $1,000 to every American household in more enduring tax relief, tax money to bail out "families who find themselves mired in debt," a new "pension plan" that includes a government subsidy of up to $500 a year for households making less than $75,000 a year, $4,000 a year in free (aka taxpayer paid) tuition for anyone who pledges "national service," a new mortgage tax credit on top of the existing one for "10 million homeowners" and more taxpayer subsidies for day care through the child-care tax credit.

Make that two chickens, three French hens and a partridge in every pear tree, at least.

All this on top of a universal health-care plan that will "help families who are struggling under the crushing burden of health-care costs by passing a plan that brings the typical family's premiums down by $2,500 and guarantees coverage to everyone who wants it."

And Obama says he can pay for all this spending by cutting in corporate tax "loopholes" and "tax havens" -- oh, yes, and by "responsibly" losing the war in Iraq.

"My plan is detailed and specific when it comes to cutting spending. In fact, all my new spending proposals would be more than paid for by spending reductions," he opined.

And Obama promises to vastly expand taxpayer obligations for a new and expensive network of benefits at the same time that neither he nor anyone else in Washington -- including John McCain -- will tell us how to pay for our existing underfunded obligations to senior citizens in Social Security, Medicare and prescription drug benefits.

All gain, no pain. That's Obama's totally conventional Washington promise to the American people.

Meanwhile, a reality check: Over the next two generations the proportion of Americans over age 65 will more than double. Paying for our existing promises of health care and retirement security for senior citizens without crushing the economic dreams of younger working Americans is the most important task Washington faces domestically. Delivering on existing promises to seniors is going to require the difficult combination of substantial tax increases and at least modest benefit cuts, most likely in the form of increases in the retirement age.

How can any responsible leader make vast new pledges and commit taxpayer dollars to grand new obligations until we've found a way to pay for our existing promises to America's senior citizens?

Oh, silly me, we are talking about a Washington politician, aren't we?

Money for nothing, and your healthcare for free.... Change you can believe in? Depends on how many hallucinogens you took in your misguided youth...

Peace, Love, and God,
Tracy

Monday, July 7th - Zero: Drunk People

I don't like drunk people. They are the most selfish people on the planet.

So there.


Peace, Love, and God,
Tracy